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Off to Sunderland.

It kind of is important for a globally televised sport, for which the clubs make the vast majority of their money from broadcasting rights, that people watching on TV can make out the player numbers.

Poch leaves Chelsea. Boehly is a full on dipshit.

Looks like WBA shirt.

Aye because it’s so much more important to make it easier for commentators and part time ‘fans’ to read the back of a players shirt than for Newcastle United to actually fully look like Newcastle United. Who gives a shit how readable the back of a shirt is? I think most of us would recognise the players anyway and rarely have I heard commentators struggle either, it’s marketing bullshite.

https://x.com/craighope_dm/status/1792974802598174930?s=12&t=7EP1snWKh3ho3iDGAoo5gw Throw the book at them.

Dan Ashworth you sly little cunt

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-13443573/Man-United-chiefs-email-blunder-Dan-Ashworth-Premier-League-tapping-punishment-Man-City-Omar-Berrada.html Link to the article. Diddy man Dan might have fucked up.

Dan Ashworth you naughty naughty boy no

https://x.com/CraigHope_DM/status/1792974802598174930

I think I covered this before but it does still not look very good for City that they didn’t win the UEFA case because they actually could prove not having done anything wrong but the case got list in legal technicalities and formal stuff so that in the end time was running out. Actually not too dissimilar what Trump is trying to achieve at the moment and how some FIFA officials as well as German officials got away with crimes related to the WC in 2006.

He has to see the bad to appreciate the good. He has got through the first half without any issues. It’s basically on par with Mary Poppins. Half cartoon. The only good thing in it is Darth Maul and then they kill him off 🤷🏻.

fair enough. is that also the case when auditing a company that is accused of fraud?

An Airbus 380 is on its way across the Atlantic. It flies consistently at 800 km/h at 30,000 feet, when suddenly a Eurofighter with a Tempo Mach 2 appears. The pilot of the fighter jet slows down, flies alongside the Airbus, and greets the pilot of the passenger plane by radio: “Airbus, boring flight isn’t it? Now have a look at this!” He rolls his jet on its back, accelerates, breaks through the sound barrier, rises rapidly to a dizzying height, and then swoops down almost to sea level in a breathtaking dive. He loops back next to the Airbus and asks: “Well, how was that?” The Airbus pilot answers: “Very impressive, but watch this!” The jet pilot watches the Airbus, but nothing happens. It continues to fly straight, at the same speed. After 10 minutes, the Airbus pilot radios, “Well, how was that? Confused, the jet pilot asks, “What did you do?” The AirBus pilot laughs and says: “I got up, stretched my legs, walked to the back of the aircraft to use the washroom, then got a cup of coffee and a chocolate fudge pastry.”

It was terrible. Intergalactic Brexit. Plus it had fucking Jar Jar Binks. The CGI - which is everywhere - inevitably looks shite by modern standards too. The next two were more entertaining. The last 3 they made, especially the last one, no, the last two, Jesus Wept. Apart from that, good plan Holden. 👍

Aye 8 for me as well. I predicted 6th before the season started but had I known we'd have the shit we've had to deal with I'd be saying mid-table at best. Tremendous from Howe and the mainstays like Gordon, Bruno and Schar.

Will that not put him off? The Phantom Menace was a political space-drama. Absolute snooze fest.

Aye I meant to come back on this. I worked in audit for 6 years, and would spend weeks out at a client finding a bunch of shit they'd done wrong/bent in their favour. The partner would come out on the last day, spend an hour with the CFO, and come out in agreement that none of what we'd found was material and they could stick with what was there in the first place. Auditors work on materiality. The sums that we're talking about might not even have registered as worthy of testing, never mind been flagged up.

Having spent years in one, it doesn't necessarily work that way. 1. Statutory audits and other audit engagements aren't designed to detect fraud, if you pick up official audit engagement paperwork you'll see disclaimers around that. 2. Auditors and big firms know the sum of feck all usually, they occupy themselves with filling checklists and forms, and rarely know much about whats really going on at the company. They also dont want to upset their big money clients. Big firms are routinely fined millions of dollars for lack of care and substandard work, just google it if you wish.

8/10 0.5 of that is for the management of the biggest injury crisis faced in Newcastle since 1854.

shocked that this only got one like

Phantom Menace was released 25 years ago.. Im taking McGroin Jnr through the Star Wars movies, starting there. Things can only get better, hey.